Favorite Books of the Year: Third Place Books
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. THIRD PLACE BOOKS (SEATTLE) Ravenna location: Patti Harriman: The Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard · The Bell Weather,...
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For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. NEWTONVILLE BOOKS (NEWTON) Jacqui Teruya: Voices in the Night: Stories, Steven Millhauser · Everything I Never Told...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: City Lights
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. CITY LIGHTS (SAN FRANCISCO) Paul Yamazaki: In the Country: Stories, Mia Alvar · The Sellout, Paul Beatty · Between...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: Harvard Book Store
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. HARVARD BOOK STORE (BOSTON) Rachel S: Landfalls, Naomi J. Williams · Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh · The Traitor Baru...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: BookPeople
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. BOOKPEOPLE (AUSTIN) Consuelo Hacker: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara · Speak, Louisa Hall · City on Fire, Garth Risk...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: Brazos Bookstore
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. BRAZOS BOOKSTORE (HOUSTON) Benjamin Rybeck (marketing director): Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson · Don’t Suck, Don’t...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: DIESEL BOOKS
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. DIESEL BOOKS (BAY AREA) Brentwood location Mo Figuls: Chronicles of Old Los Angeles, James Roman · Alfred Jarry: A...
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The 25 Best Books of the Year, According to Booksellers
We asked nearly 150 booksellers from 20 bookstores across America to send us their favorite books of the year. The result: 750 suggestions, nearly 100 of which were recommended more than once....
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: Seminary Co-op
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. SEMINARY CO-OP (CHICAGO) Colin McDonald: Her Life and Art, Nancy Princethal · Thoughts and Things, Leo Bersani ·...
View ArticleFavorite Books of the Year: Green Apple Books
For the full results of our booksellers’ favorite books of the year, head over here. GREEN APPLE BOOKS (SAN FRANCISCO) Samantha Shaw: H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald · Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum ·...
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Literary Hub’s Best Books of 2015
These are the books we loved this year. Jess Bergman, Assistant Editor The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante: I gave myself over to the Neapolitan Novels this past spring, finally convinced by...
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The Best Overlooked Books of 2015
We asked our friends at the NBCC (the National Book Critics Circle) to come up with some of the books they loved that maybe didn’t get as much attention as they deserved. With the help of NBCC board...
View ArticleSo You’ve Decided to Launch an Imprint…
This past March beloved independent publisher Coffee House announced they’d be launching their first imprint in collaboration with Emily Books. Founded in 2011 by Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, Emily...
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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 36
Deadly serious issues—race, gender, persecution, politics, class—side by side with the ephemeral and superficial—celebrity, scandal, vanity, superficiality… It is fitting that the year in literary...
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The Biggest Cuties in Publishing
We at Literary Hub are fond of year-end lists—we’ve calculated the 25 favorite books of America’s booksellers, provided our own favorite books, and counted down the biggest literary stories. However,...
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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 35 to 26
We’re counting down the 50 biggest literary stories of the year. To see 50 through 36, head over here. 35. Nell Zink, Powerful Wizard, Speaks Though “powerful American wizard” Nell Zink first burst...
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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 25 to 16
We continue our year-end countdown of the top 50 literary stories of the year. For 50 through 36, head here; for 35 to 26, click here. 25. The VIDA Count Expands, Shows Slight Improvement In April, the...
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Literary Hub’s 10 Most Read Stories of the Year
Literary Hub launched in early April of this year. Happily, the stories in this most-read list represent precisely the kind and variety of writing we’d hoped to feature from the start—smart,...
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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 15 to 6
Our countdown of the 50 biggest literary stories of the year hurtles ever-closer to number one. To catch up on the rest of the list, read 50 to 36 here, 35 to 26 here, and 25 to 16 here. 15....
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Our Favorite Stories of the Year
On Monday, we presented our ten most-read Literary Hub stories. Today, we’re happy to reveal our personal favorites: in some cases these stories reached the large audiences they deserved, in other...
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